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COMBINED WHEELED HARROW AND SEEDER.

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No. 369,072. Patented Aug. 30, .1887.-

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JOHN G. NOEL AND GEORGE PARTON, OF LONGMONT, COLORADO, AS- SIGNORS OF ONE-THIRD TO WILLIAM H. WALKER, OF SAME PLACE.

COMBINED WHEELED HARROW AND SEEDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part. of Letters Patent No. 369.0'72, dated August 30, 1887.

Application filed March 9. 1887.

T0 aZZ whom, it .may concern,-

Be it known that we, JOHN G. NOEL and GEORGE PARTON, of Longmont, in the county of Boulder and State of Colorado, have in vented certain new and useful Improvements in Combined \Vlieeled I-Iarrows and Seeders, of which the following is such a full, clear, and exact description as will enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains to make and use the same.

The objects of our invention are to improve the mechanism for raising and lowering the harrow in sections or as a whole, either to avoid obstructions while in use or to readily transport it from place to place, to make it convenient to turn on a short space, to operate the seeder from one wheel of the carriage, and to otherwise improve the usefulness of such devices.

The invention consists in certain features of construction and combination, hereinafter specifically set forth.

In the two sheets of drawings, forming part of thespecification, and in which the same or corresponding parts are denoted by the same reference-characters, Figure 1 is a perspective view of our invention. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same. Fig. 3 is a view of the front pulley-shaft and its pulleys. Figs. 4, 5, and 6 are details of the parts shown in Fig. 3. Fig. 7 shows the threepart rear pulley-shaft and its pulleys.

Referringby characters to the drawings, A AA A represent the wheels; I), the carriage having the offset at b, for the purpose of allowing the fore wheels to pass freely under the front elevated part of the carriage, thus allowing the whole to be turned short and on a small space of ground.

B denotes the front bolster, to which the harrows B B B are secured by means of the chain 0 O and the intermediate bar or rail, A. The usual clevises are used.

0 is the seeder or grain-box, located just back of the offset in the carriage. Within this box is a rotary stirrer-shaft, E, on one end of which is mounted a sprocket-wheel, E. About this sprocket-wheel E and the sprocketwheel E on one of the rear wheelspasses the sprocket-chain or suitable band, I). The operators seat is secured to the front bolster, B.

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Mounted in bearings on the fore part of the carriage b is a pulley-shaft, d, whose main portion is square or angular. It is round within its bearings and at the portions where the pulleys e e are mounted, as plainly seen in Fig. 3; hence these pulleys turn freely in one direction on the said shaft, and would turn freely in the other direction were it not for the cams t" z", attached firmly to the said shaft or being a part thereof, one at one side of each of said pulleys e e, and the pawls t 13, one of which is attached to each of said pulleys. The pulley c is secured on the angular part of this shaft, and hence this pulley and the shaft turn together. Attached to each pulley e is a lever, H, and a lever, H, is attached to the pulley 6. These handles or 1evers H H are readily within reach of the driver when seated on the seat. Attached to each'pulley e c is a chain, c, and to the pulley e a chain, 6'. These chains are secured within a groove in the peripherynof their respective pulleys by means of a staple or otherwise. Each chain c c c runs back over the frame I), and is attached within the groove of a pulley, F, which is secured at or near one end of the pulley-shaft F. At the other end of'each shaft F is a pulley, F. These pulleys F F are rigidly secured on the shafts F. L

The shafts F may be made angular at all parts except at their bearings on the frame B, or the pulleys may be splinedon the shafts. As seen in Fig. 7, there are three sections of pulley-shafts,F F F. There are also three sections of harrows, B B B, shown, or three separate harrows. The number ofpulley-shaft sections and the barrow-sections are the same.

Each chain c e 6" passes over and partly around its corresponding pulley, F F F, to which it is secured by a staple or some suitable means. In the peripheral groove of each pulley F F F, secured on said shaft F F F, is secured a chain, G G G, which passes forward toward the center of its corresponding barrow-section, B, to which each said chain is secured by means of a hook, staple, or any other convenient means. Alongside of the lever H, which is attached to the pulley e, is a toothed rack, H, whose teeth point forward, so that the sharp edge of the lever H can be caught and held on any one of these teeth, for a purpose hereinafter stated;

The operation of our combined harrow and seeder is as follows: When the machine is put in motion by means of horses harnessed to it in the usual manner, the sproelretchain D is putin operation by the sprocket'wheel mounted onthe hub of one of the wheels of the carriage. The sprocket-wheel operates the stirrer or seed- Io scatterer within the seed-box, and thus propcrly distributes the grain upon the ground 3" ust in front of the harrows. The harrows, following, properly cover up the seed. Suppose there is an obstruction in advance of one or the other side of the harrow. The driver will grasp in his hand the lever H of the harrowseotion, which he may wish to lift to clear the obstruction, and since the pulleys a turn freely on the shaft, as he lifts, the said pulley will turn, the pawl 11 receding or moving away from the shoulder or cam t". preferably make about twelve inches in diameter; hence onc-half a revolution of the pulley will lift up its harrow-seetion 13 about eighteen inches, so as to clear quite ahigh obstruction; and as the pulley-shafts F F F are three separate independent shafts, the raisin g of a lever, H, will raise but one section B; but suppose it is desired to pass a large obstruction, or to remove the combined machine from field to field or from farm to farm, and it is desirable that the harrows shall not drag on the ground. The driver in that case lifts the handle or lever H, which is secured to the pulley 0. Now, as has been stated, this pulley is rigidly attached to its shaft d hence turning the pulley also rotates its shaft, and as the shaft (2 commences to rotate fOlW-illd, the cams i" look against the pawls on the pulleys c, and thus look these pulleys to the said shaft, and so all of the har- 0 attached to the front bolster of said carriage,

a front pulley-shaft, a rigid pulley and two loose pulleys mounted tliereon,means to cause said loose pulleys to turn with said shaft, a sectional rear pulley-shaft, (each section car- 5 5 rying two pulleys.) a separate chain connecting each front pulley with one of each pair of These pulleys e e" we edema F 1* F and the pullcysl F, the chains 0 e' G G G, and the harrows B B B, substantially as described.

3. In a combined wheeled harrow and seeder, the combination of the carriage, the shalt (I, having cams i, with pulleys c e, having the pawls t i, the pulley o, the rear pulleyshaft having the rigidly-attached pulleys F F, the barrow-sections B B B, and the chains e"eG G G, all substantially as described.

4. The combination of the carriage b, having, the offset 1), the front pulley-shaft and its pulleys, one being rigidly fixed thereon, the others being capable of free rotation thereon, but also capable of being locked to the shaft when the shaft itself is rotated, the separate rear pulleyshafts and the pulleys mounted thereon, the chains intermediate these two sets of pulleys, the harrow'seetions, chains connecting the liar-rows and the last said pulleys, and means for operating the front pulleys, as described.

5. In a combined wheeld barrow and seeder, the combination of a wheeled carriage having an offset, a seeder-box, astirrer in said box carrying a sprocket vheel, a sprocket-wheel on one \VllGfll-hllb, a sprocket-chain passing around these two sprocketwheels, a front pulleyshaft, a set of pulleys on said shaft, a rear pulley-shaft made in sections, as many harrowsections as there are sections in the pulleyshaft, chains connecting these harrows and p ulleysections and chains connecting the two sets of pulleys, and means for lifting the harrow-seotions both separately and all together, as described.

In testimony that we claim the foregoing as our invention we hereby sign our names, this 28th day of February, 1887, in the presence of two witnesses.

JOHN C. NOEL. GEORGE PARTON.

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DANIEL N. STRADLEY, B. L. CARR. 

